Functional analysis of secA homologues from rickettsiae

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 589-596

  Rahman, M Sayeedur ^a   Simser, Jason A ^a   Macaluso, Kevin R ^a   Azad, Abdu F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEIN SECA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; START CODON; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TYPHUS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 14044270119     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27556-0     Document Type: Article

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